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Retraction notice The editors retract this publication following the recommendation issued by Central South University as a result of an investigation over concerns about duplicate publication of some of the data reported in the article. Following the publication of the article, it was brought to the editors’ attention that that the data reported in the article are very similar to that reported the authors' related publication below: miR-338-3p Is Down-Regulated by Hepatitis B Virus X and Inhibits Cell Proliferation by Targeting the 3'-UTR Region of CyclinD1 Fu X, Tan D, Hou Z, Hu Z, Liu G. Int J Mol Sci. 2012;13(7):8514-39. Epub 2012 Jul 9. Upon evaluation of the two articles, the editors noted the following overlap in the data reported: - Figures 1A and 1B in the PLOS ONE article correspond to Figures 3A and 3B in the Int J Mol Sci article - The data in Figure 2 in the PLOS ONE article correspond to in Figures 3C and 3D in the Int J Mol Sci article - The FACS data in Figure 3 in the PLOS ONE article are similar to those in Figure 4 in the Int J Mol Sci article - Figure 4 "Mimics LO2/HBx-d382" in the PLOS ONE article corresponds to Figure 5 "Mimics LO2/HBx" in the Int J Mol Sci article - Figure 6C in the PLOS ONE article corresponds to Figure 6b in the Int J Mol Sci article - Figure S3 in the PLOS ONE article overlaps with the data in Figure 7 in the Int J Mol Sci article - Figure S2 in the PLOS ONE article overlaps with the data in Figure 4 in the Int J Mol Sci article The publication in International Journal of Molecular Sciences was not cited in the PLOS ONE article. The editors were also concerned about a selective representation of data, given that several Western Blots included in the International Journal of

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